Quotes about anything
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“The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.”

Jack Kerouac book The Subterraneans

Source: The Subterraneans

Life

“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: The Benefactor (1963), Ch. 1, p. 1, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-312-42012-9

Truth

“You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.”

Stormie Omartian (1942) American writer

Source: Stormie: A Story of Forgiveness and Healing

World

“Anything a person chases in life runs away.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Life, Personality

“I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“we're anything brighter than even the sun”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Sun

“Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Love, Life, Passion, Time

“Anything more than the truth would be too much.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Truth

“Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Love

“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

God

“I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.”

Melissa de la Cruz Blue Bloods

Source: Blue Bloods

Life

“I think women rule the world, and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Rolling Stone interview (21 June 1984)

Women, World, Thinking

“Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Soul

“There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

“Do anything, save to lie down and die!”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter

Lie

“What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Life, School, Home

“Renee was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever does with girls”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Beauty, Girl, Sense

“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.”

Vivian Vande Velde (1951) American writer

Source: Cloaked in Red

“Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Moms, Help, Personality

“Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Personality

“Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?”

Keith Richards book Life

Source: Life

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.”

Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian physicist

Source: What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

“You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Love, Fear, Motivation

“Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on.”

Robin Wasserman book Skinned

Source: Skinned

Training

“… hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.”

John Updike book Rabbit, Run

Source: Rabbit, Run

Hate, Forgiveness

“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Way

“In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Women, Men, Understanding

“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: The Writing Life

“Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again…. Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love…”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Love, Fear

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.”

John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist

Love, Patience

“I think… that when it comes to us, anything is possible.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Thinking

“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Books

“When you told me the first time that Valentine was your father, I didn't believe it. Not just because I didn't want it to be true, but because you weren't anything like him. I've never thought you're anything like him. But you are. You are.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Time

“Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.”

André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician

“I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Freedom

“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

Love

“Lara: Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.

Kitty: PMS?

Lara: No. It's not PMS. Just because a girl is sad, it doesn't mean it has anything to do with PMS.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Sadness, Feeling, Girl

“Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

Sense

“My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste. I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid if this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Sleep

“Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all.

But holes are interesting things.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

Waiting

“Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never backed down from a fight. Don't you know anything? When she's in heat, she avoids everything male. Now run!”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Animal Instincts

Fight

“Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Feeling, Night

“There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Pain, Hope

“I can't believe you married a justice nymph and have yet to learn anything from her. There are always three sides to every memory, Z. Yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

Truth, Justice, Learning, Memory

“I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Life, Kiss

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Friday

Source: Friday

People, Religion, Country

“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
Source: Miscellanies in Verse and Prose. by Alexander Pope, Esq; And Dean Swift. in One Volume. Viz. the Strange and Deplorable Frensy of Mr. John Dennis. ... Epitaph on Francis Ch-Is. Soldier and Scholar. with Several More Epigrams, Epitaphs, and Poems.

People, Understanding, Learning

“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.”

Charles Simic (1938) American poet

Religion, Soul, Night

“… why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.”

Stephen Colbert book I Am America (And So Can You!)

Source: I Am America

“He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Runaway Queen

Fish, Learning

“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

Literature

“There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear… revenge.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Love, Fear, Faith, Revenge

“Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: Farewell to Arms

Love

“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Change, Time, Waiting

“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.”

Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1932–2017) Russian poet, film director, teacher

Andrew R. MacAndrew (trans.) A Precocious Autobiography (1963; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965) p. 7.

“Do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Parade interview http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_09-23-2007/AStephen_Colbert (23 September 2007) <br class="br">Variant: You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid. <br class="br">Context: Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.

Time